The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
Why does the guerrilla fighter fight? We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, that… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so… — Francis William Aston Copy Share Image
Agnosticism, in fact, is not a creed, but a method, the essence of which lies in the rigorous application of a single… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Discovery is new beginning. It is the origin of new rules that supplement, or even supplant, the old. Genius is creative. It… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
It's a sign of this film's greatness that the enormous sadness that accompanies the final leave-taking of the circus interior is a… — Jonathan Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
What a mathematical proof actually does is show that certain conclusions, such as the irrationality of , follow from certain premises, such… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
Old ideas are continually being slain by new facts. There is nothing stable in the conclusions of the mind, and it is… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been. . .by… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns. Life asks of us the same thing we have been asked in… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Our ultimate analysis of space leads us not to a "here" and a "there," but to an extension such as that which… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
It is not surprising that more and more people are coming to the conclusion that the ballot box is no longer an… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Buddhist epistemologists do argue that rational analysis leads to the conclusion that rational analysis cannot give us infallible access to truth, including… — Jay L. Garfield Copy Share Image
I would not draw definitive conclusions from that. If we look at South and North Korea, it is pretty hard to believe… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“I put complains aside and replace each of them with trials and to my surprise, some things I see as difficult were… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
There is no scientific theory that could lead us from a detailed map of every single neuron in someone's brain to a… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls and mistakes… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
“It had taken him a few months to figure out that they were right for each other, but now that conclusion seemed… — Chessela Helm Copy Share Image
The man who is wantonly profuse of his promises ought to sink his credit as much as a tradesman would by uttering… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The chicken noticed that the farmer came every day to feed it. It predicted that the farmer would continue to bring food… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A decade ago, I really did believe that the average investor could do it himself. I was wrong. I've come to the… — William J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
I've sworn off agnosticism, which I now call cowardly atheism. I've come to the position that in the complete absence of any… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
I gloomily came to the ironic conclusion that if you take a highly intelligent person and give them the best possible, elite… — Halton Arp Copy Share Image
The speaker tentatively reaches out with that feeling and realizes that it's kind of absurd, or at least a dangerous consolation, which… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Roaming the world as a foreign correspondent for more than a decade, I was able to observe how a variety of vastly… — Louis Rukeyser Copy Share Image
Even when you expose something, when you have a true believer, that person rejects that proof; he thinks it's just a set-up.… — Rodrigo Cortes Copy Share Image
As a Jew reading about Jesus, I thought, 'He's a pretty good guy.' It's the same conclusion Monty Python drew in 'Life… — David Javerbaum Copy Share Image
After more than 700 hours of studying this subject, and thoroughly investigating its foundation, I have come to the conclusion that the… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
Sneezing absorbs all the functions of the soul just as much as the [sexual] act, but we do not draw from it… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Far from being a sum of distinct and partial results, victory is the consequence of efforts, some of which are victorious while… — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
The way the electoral college works, the way the states have kind of sorted themselves out in such a way that most… — Frank Bruni Copy Share Image